Technology Workshop Lesson Plan

Jodi Fochler

Track Those Changes

Day #2

Subject(s) of the day's workshop:


Microsoft Office Track Changes

Prerequisite Knowledge:


Teachers should have basic knowledge of the operating system in their school as well as Microsoft Office.

Content:


Revisions and editing are important steps that often left out during the writing process. This class will provide the teachers with a new way to use Microsoft Word to complete these steps with their students. With various tools, teachers will be able to track the changes made in their own documents as well as make comments and changes to another’s document without making them permanent. This will allow them to then show their students how to better edit and revise their peer’s work.

Objectives:


Teachers will be able to
  1. Determine how to turn track changes on and off
  2. Discover how to display track changes
  3. How to hide track changes without deleting them
  4. How to allow a peer to revise using track changes and show those revisions in another color
  5. How to print revisions

Lesson Details:


  1. Begin by generating a list of ways in which they use Microsoft Word
  2. View video on how Track Changes can be used to edit documents
  3. Download Word document provided for this training
  4. Follow through guided workshop to turn on and off track changes, display changes, and hide
  5. See examples of how to peer revise
  6. Download second Word document provided
  7. Complete the guided Revise and Edit directions based on what was just shown by instructor

Additional materials:


  1. Track Changes video
  2. Word Document #1
  3. Word Document #2
  4. Revise and Edit Directions
  5. Instructor will also refer tohttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/track-changes-while-you-edit-HA001218690.aspx >

(see below for resources)

Evaluation:


Teachers will have edited the second word document based on the revise and edit directions given, which will show knowledge of the track changes shown during the workshop.




Track Changes Video:



Document #1



Document #2



Revise and Edit Directions



Please complete the following evaluation for this workshop: